Word: armstrong
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...justify still another fictional show-biz biography is to link it to the color question. Adam is a specialty act salted with social protest. It is played at a feverish pitch by Sammy Davis Jr., who has surrounded himself with such Negro performers as Ossie Davis, Louis Armstrong and, as the girl in his cheering section, a sunburst of shy sepia charm named Cicely Tyson. A handful of jazzmen (Mel Torme, Kai Winding, Nat Adderly) make the score swing but aren't much help otherwise, except as evidence that when Sammy plays a good gig, his pals...
...most original jazz pianist around. His own father had played the cornet, and Earl adapted its lusty, brassy quality to the keyboard, learned to chop out big, gaudy chords in order to be heard through a blaring orchestra. The technique was further refined when he teamed with Louis Armstrong in 1928 for a memorable series of recordings. Recalls Hines: "I wanted to play like him, and he wanted to play like me, so we both stole a little from each other." What evolved was Hines's "trumpet style"-a left hand that cushioned, a right hand that attacked...
Lithe and handsome in fringed white buckskin, his golden mane glinting in the sunlight, dashing George Armstrong Custer stood before a tattered guidon of the Seventh Cavalry, smiting bloodthirsty Sioux hip and thigh. Finally, standing tall, his dead troops strewn about him, Custer faced a climactic Indian charge singlehanded and became the last man to die at the Battle of the Little Bighorn...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Danny Kaye plays Jazzman Ernest Loring ("Red") Nichols in The Five Pennies, a Hollywood biography that also manages to find "real life" roles for Barbara Bel Geddes, Harry Guardino, Louis Armstrong, Bob Crosby and Tuesday Weld...
Will Steven Armstrong's basic set has a backdrop with Roman porticos painted on it, in front of which two monumental staircases slant in from the upstage corners. At the start there are two tall tapering silver fleches topped with Corinthian capitals, and a row of silver rods hanging behind. Other irregular rafts of widely spaced rods go up and down here and there during the play. There is nothing wrong with stylized settings, but to have players point to these batches of vertical rods and call them a "tent" is carrying license too far. Armstrong has clothed the cast...